Average wrestlers that you mark for.

File: 1567943387035.jpg -(87306B / 85.26KB, 976x741) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. They're not the best on the mic, they're not the best in the ring, they didn't do much with their career, they never appear in top 10 lists that much. But you still absolutely love them. Who are they?

Alundra Blayze - Sun, 08 Sep 2019 08:05:36 EST bWZ+YR1tNo.6293814 Reply 1567944336903.jpg -(62539B / 61.07KB, 742x960) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. This motherfucker right here. Waited like 15 minutes after the show to buy a shirt from the guy at the last NEW Poughkeepsie show because he was uploading the show to the Highspots server. A true jack of all trades and he earned that video production merit badge.

STIGMA - Sun, 08 Sep 2019 09:33:37 EST Jyafr0HSNo.6293828 Reply 1567949617451.png -(135527B / 132.35KB, 252x225) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.>>6293809Breeze. Granted he wrestled Jushin Thunder L Fashion Files got over huge, but after that he and Dango got lost in the shuffle. I marked when Breeze returned to NXT, and then again when Dango came back looking baller.

Stephanie McMahon-Levesque - Sun, 08 Sep 2019 11:49:43 EST xRPb2TFvNo.6293865 Reply >>6293830Fashion Files was one of the highlights of Smackdown Live.It's a shame they never just pulled the trigger and gave them a run with the titles

STIGMA - Sun, 08 Sep 2019 12:48:08 EST Jyafr0HSNo.6293877 Reply 1567961288451.jpg -(84987B / 83.00KB, 1062x1062) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.>>6293853As much as I like slick black PS3 attires, I agree they could use a new look. Dango looked fucking baller when he came back to save Breeze. They even did a backstage promo about policing their own fashion and reimagining Breezango, but all they've really done is get a new theme.

Controversial pick: RusevSpecifically, his time with Summer Rae. That love triangle feud with Ziggler was terrible, but I absolutely loved Ruru and all the promos he cut. He single-handedly carried that entire angle.

Adam Cole - Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:29:05 EST y73oDH6aNo.6293912 Reply 1567970945588.jpg -(6423B / 6.27KB, 196x257) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Since I'm about to start missing Orange Cassidy due to contractual hell, I've been a mark for his replacement as the funniest guy to step in the ring. Him and his conscience.

Raisha Saeed - Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:32:17 EST yW/6cJ4lNo.6293914 Reply Don't know if he really counts since he was NWA Champion, but Ken Shamrock. I'm excited to see his match with Moose even though it's probably going to be mediocre.

Ricky Steamboat - Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:37:29 EST Wp+LMNIHNo.6294060 Reply >>6294009rhyno always cons me into marking out for him, then he gets into the ring and a minute passes and i remember that his ringwork sucks outside of the gore. i think he's one of the last wrestlers to have that really natural coked out vibe and energy

Kazarian - Mon, 09 Sep 2019 04:52:29 EST 0oGh3TdINo.6294067 Reply 1568019149125.jpg -(48460B / 47.32KB, 600x300) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. It was objectively just a run-of-the-mill heel stable, but damn if the Cabinet wasn't fun in the short period it existed.

Charlie Haas - Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:12:42 EST 3WmGZTtGNo.6294183 Reply 1568056362516.jpg -(38631B / 37.73KB, 474x472) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.>>6293809Al Snow. In fact, he's one of my favorites of all time. He really acted like a totally insane son of a bitch with that mannequin head, and I loved the hell out of that. I never understood why he wasn't a bigger star.

Kirtaner!Ub4TCdRjOM - Mon, 09 Sep 2019 23:33:06 EST OJTTcniENo.6294426 Reply >>6294363Why are you all so enthusiastically ranting about luchadors moonsaulting for nothing more than a giant bingo hall, crying like a bunch of amazing smark cuties that still somehow can't handle a heel running the show?

No steel cages here, just keep crying about the booking process disappointing you every chance it gets. Meanwhile Nick Gage will keep showing referees screaming "curtain jerker!!!" that he's still murder death kill, and exoticos are no different from yardtards.

Rockin' Robin - Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:31:31 EST kDhu5DdpNo.6294451 Reply >>6294448This wannabe Lex Luthor phase of his career is weird, but still pretty entertaining compared to a lot of boring shit happening these days, but I was always really interested in him because he's more of a character worker than ring worker. Just really wish he had a deeper voice, it doesn't have to be Wagner-like but something deeper than what he has.

Norman Smiley - Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:47:32 EST kY08DZ3vNo.6294454 Reply 1568098052665.jpg -(25184B / 24.59KB, 507x337) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. I think his push in ECW was purely political. For those uninitiated, Justin Credible was affiliated with The Kliq. His partner Lance Storm having been from Calgary and one of the last people to be trained by Stu Hart, made their whole gimmick out of the Montreal Screwjob. Heyman successfully lured Scott Hall to working a few house shows by exploiting Credible's connection, and they nearly talked Shawn Michaels into coming out of retirement in ECW but Vince McMahon put the nix on that. Who knows what else could have been negotiated had the ordeal lasted?

Anyway, the obvious political strategy aside, I believe through actually watching Justin Credible's heel run that the company and fans alike understood that Justin was not great, his whole character was that he was underwhelming. Even his gimmick name 'Justin Credible' is a nod to this. His name is "credible," not INCREDIBLE, but he believes and is pushed as if he IS incredible, almost as if his position in the company is based purely on political ties with the powers that be.

There are references in every single one of his ECW storylines to him being a "hack" who steals people's gimmicks, moves, nicknames, and even poses. He was accused by announcers on-air of ripping off Raven, Shane Douglas, The Sandman, Undertaker, Goldberg, Steve Austin. Many of his opponents were scripted to call him a coward who sucked, and that his catch phrase and gimmick were lame as fuck. Those are nearly direct quotes. He barely ever defended his title successfully without interference or cheating. For all of the hate that this character and wrestler got, I truly believe they were looking at an example of meta wrestling art, and judging it based on pedestrian standards.

Looking back, I think that the dedication to keeping the content and the art form interesting for only extreme smarks is a major reason why ECW became less marketable and dead as a result. This sort of extremely "inside" content was clever as hell, and it would fair very well today, because there is more of an audience for it. At the time, the industry was booming and the hardcore fanbase was huge. As it all dropped off in general, it made the need for 'smart' or artistic wrestling totally unnecessary.

I have seen people on /wooo/ recently trashing Cyrus' early ECW character where he was pandering to smarks. Again, he was a heel and the whole point of his character is that he was a WWF reject who was fired because nobody fucking liked him and he had too much heat. Cyrus' gimmick was based partly on Vince McMahon backstage in WWF. Just goes to show ECW was too ahead of its time and is still working the marks even in archive broadcasts and encore presentations.

Ted DiBiase - Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:56:08 EST 3WmGZTtGNo.6294486 Reply >>6293809Y'know, another guy who nobody else seems to give a damn about but I actually like is Davey Boy Smith Jr. I occasionally watch World of Sport, and he's the only guy there who was really entertaining to me. I feel like he really has potential to be a big star, tbh.

Milano Collection A.T. - Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:12:42 EST l4fEqB+BNo.6294544 Reply >>6294448I really want to hate him, and there are times I do, but at the same time he is my boy from back in NXT days. I guess I can't explain it, but if I had to I'd say that he mostly sucks but has some good moments. It's almost ironic enjoyment when he does shit like winning last night. He's gotten better in the ring and on the mic but that's not saying tons.

Akeem - Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:52:25 EST mQt21HGJNo.6294730 Reply WHO IN THE FUCK IS MARKY. BEEN SEEING HIM GET STALKED FOR OVER A YEAR AND HAVE NOT SEEN ANY CLUE AS TO WHY HE IS BEING FOLLOWED AROUND OR MATTERS

PAC - Tue, 10 Sep 2019 21:19:58 EST L4YJHN0XNo.6294774 Reply >>6294730marky is the weirdo shitposter from a while back who, aside from having idiotic takes on the graps in general, would devolve his posts into rambling about his bizarre polluter fetishes.

He was banned for this but apparently evading them is cool with the mods now. It's very easy to spot him if you're familiar with his "distinct" posting style.

Harley Race - Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:19:09 EST JYaHdZGiNo.6294961 Reply >>6294730 It's been over a year, so good for you if you didn't notice earlier. Marky is a shitty poster who used to be a shitposter. Everybody forgot about him when he got less obnoxious, except for bItch ass HBLWC/LC (aka "Smarky") has a fascination with the guy. So he stalks marky relentlessly, always jumping on his posts, and it's great to see other people starting to take notice. Following a poster around the board for a day is fucked up; doing it for 18 months should be an infraction.

Earl Hebner - Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:06:18 EST 3GK+eenxNo.6295254 Reply 1568243178083.jpg -(46234B / 45.15KB, 900x506) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. It wasn't until years later that I heard about the incident where he kicked JBL in the head at the airport. Made me like him even more.

Hydra - Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:56:23 EST g0JhSpRFNo.6295464 Reply 1568300183109.jpg -(143026B / 139.67KB, 343x480) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.>>6295095a little off topic but Spike was a top tier deck in Raw Deal (wwf trading card game) for quite some time. It's funny because jobbers were the best decks while super popular guys like The Rock or Austin had a bunch of strategies but the cards were too expensive.IIRC, somebody made a stupid The Hurricane deck that ended up winning the world championship.

Hydra - Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:53:15 EST g0JhSpRFNo.6295483 Reply 1568303595109.jpg -(150528B / 147.00KB, 343x480) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.>>6295479there's a community who creates their own cards and shit but they're fans of the late gameplay era (before the reboot) so most of the "new" cards are too overpowered for my taste in trading card games.

I wanna make a Raw Deal thread but first I need to prepare some images and read about all the things I don't remember. Nobody talks about this but the game used a lot of insider lingo.

Shad Gaspard - Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:09:51 EST H97lkgSzNo.6295491 Reply >>6295484Oh man, it was so good. Such a good time. my Raven deck chock full of chairshots and drop toe holds was a beast for a short period.

Hydra - Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:56:50 EST g0JhSpRFNo.6295504 Reply 1568307410109.jpg -(90088B / 87.98KB, 640x475) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size.>>6295484>>6295495Back then, almost every MTG pro in my city was into this game even if they weren't wrestling fans because the game was great. Raw Deal had many variables for deckbuilding, Comic Images took some ideas from mtg like the color pie or counterspells and made it mandatory. You needed a "superstar card" and each one had their own unique cards. The third edition (backlash) added horizontal cards that made you modify your character and chances (like drawing three more cards in your starting hand, mulligan, decide who starts, end your opponent first turn before he does anything). This balanced many wrestlers, specially the ones with 2 or less superstar value (this value determines who starts the game).The game has three card types, maneuvers, actions and reversals. Maneuvers are sub divided in five categories (strike, grapple, submission, high risk, trademark finisher), Actions (mtg sorceries, draw X cards, recover X cards) and Reversals (counterspells for each type of maneuver and actions). You win by milling your opponent's deck with your maneuvers. Action cards let you put cards from your discard pile back into your hand or deck. So you have to attack, try to stay alive, and counter.

Atsushi Kotoge - Fri, 13 Sep 2019 03:51:52 EST l4fEqB+BNo.6295786 Reply >>6295575This has to be written by someone who did not have to live through the year of him posting almost daily about his mayo sandwich/deforestation Nikki Bella fetish. The dude would derail threads by swearing up and down Mojo Rawley was a cruiserweight. Plus, saying shut up >marky is like bringing up amiiboos to swerveface or when orange wonder was here replying something like personal attack me or I own a gun. It's just a meme.

Golga - Fri, 13 Sep 2019 06:19:35 EST v0UW1WDfNo.6295796 Reply 1568369975250.jpg -(28709B / 28.04KB, 750x422) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. Jake Crist is one underrated motherfucker and im glad they put the X Division title on him don't watch spoilers but i hope the direction Impact went with their booking is that they have Dave and Fulton become a tag while Jake does more stuff with the championship, would be ideal OVE is a very /boy/ stable now that i think of it, maybe not Sami because he's well known and decently popular, but anyone else definitely fits that moniker

Razor Ramon HG - Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:27:46 EST PmWqZVf/No.6295919 Reply >>6295877Him and Abyss are producing in WWE, so good for them. When you think about it his start in Backyard Wrestling DVDs held him back a lot I think.